Book 2010
The hare with amber eyes
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- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Jewish businesspeople
- Jewish bankers
- Art
- Family
- Netsukes
- Travel
- Art collections
- Collectors and collecting
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.